DM Audio recently provided top class sound reinforcement for one of the key ‘royal command’ events in the Swedish calendar.

On December 10 the Swedish royal family attended the Nobel Prize banquet, presented by the Nobel Foundation, at Stockholm City Hall, featuring all the Laureates.

DM Audio has a long tradition of supplying the sound system for the Nobel entertainment — and using the new Martin Audio W8LM Mini Line Array for the first time, the PA company assigned the component parts of the three-way system, to QSC PL1.4’s and PL4.0’s , with PL6.0’s handling the Martin S18 subwoofers.

The orchestra was miked and amplified through the Martin Audio W8LM speakers — five enclosures per side — hidden in the windows behind the orchestra /soloists (the placement of the speakers being dictated totally by the aesthetics).

All monitors consisted of Martin Audio Blackline F8’s driven by QSC PLX 3402 amplifiers (the jazz quartet also used Samson IEM’s).

The system was processed using Martin Audio’s dedicated DX1 processors, with Rane, TC Electronic and Drawmer components providing the outboard processing. The show was mixed by DM Audio’s Lars Wern on an Allen & Heath ML5000 48-channel mixer, with TC Electronic System 6000 and Drawmer MX 50 as outboard gear.

Lars Wern reported that the small line array came through a difficult live show with flying colours. “We managed to shoot through the hall without leaking too much down into the microphones,” he said.

The entertainment this year included the fantastic composer/sax/flute player, Magnus Lindgren, who brought his quartet and 20 members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Stockholm Sinfonietta — with singer Rigmor Gustavsson appearing as a special guest. They played three pieces by Magnus.

The event was also broadcast by Swedish TV. DM Audio provided a feed of the violins — and everything else was shared through a BSS splitter system.

DM Beef Up Club Aladdin

DM Audio have confirmed the installation of a Martin Audio system in the refurbished Club Aladdin, in the centre of Stockholm — which has been transformed into a super class nightclub.

Martin W8LM (in a 4x4 configuration) is used as a live PA, driven by QSC PLX series amplification (using Rane processing).

Further Martin F10 sidefills and S18/F12 outfills are also driven by QSC.
To the venue’s existing subwoofers DM have injected new life into the lower end, while a Yamaha 01V 96 now provides the front-of-house mix.